Rogers's Vegetable Cultivator. 34.5 



much satisfaction the Board have to repeat this year their high sense of the 

 improvement in cottage gardens in general, and that in all the instances there 

 were a neatness and cleanliness in their dwellings which are the fruits of indus- 

 try and good management." 



That " spirited florist and nurseryman, Mr. B. Saunders, continues to in- 

 crease his collections, and the Committee found his gardens in the best order, 

 and tastefully arranged ; and M. Rene Langelier has lately directed much 

 labour and expense to a very extensive collection of pear trees. Since the 

 Society was formed, several nursery gardens have been established, which of 

 itself proves the increased encouragement given to the horticulture of the 

 island." A vineyard has lately been planted by M. E. Nicole, jun. Amon" 

 the objects for which premiums are given to cottagers are fowls of every 

 description, including pigeons ; to which might be added rabbits, pigs, and 

 bees. 



At the end of the Report is a list of plants indigenous to Jersey, made by 

 Professor La Gasca while residing in that island, arranged according to the 

 Linna;an system. 



Art. V. The Vegetable Cultivator; containing a plain and accurate 

 Description of all the different Species and Varieties of Culinary 

 Vegetables, with the most improved Method of cultivating them by 

 natural and artificial Means, and the best Mode of Cooking them ; 

 alphabetically arranged : together with a Description of the Physical 

 Herbs in general Use, fyc. ; also, some Recollections of the Life of 

 Philip Miller, F.R.S. By John Rogers. 12mo, pp. 343. London, 

 1839. 



" Emboldened by the success of a former work on fruits, which has 

 reached a third edition, the author offers the present to a discerning public, in 

 the hope that a similar success may attend it ; and, while he would not attempt 

 to undervalue other horticultural writings, he would yet venture to call atten- 

 tion to the circumstance, that few, if any, will be found to contain an equal 

 amount of practical information condensed in the same compass, and at the 

 same price." 



Mr. Rogers's Fruit Cidtivator was reviewed in a former volume, in which we 

 noticed the great age of the author, to which he recurs in the concluding para- 

 graph of his preface, thus : — 



" Whether he shall himself survive long enough to find reason to be orati- 

 fied with such success, his great age renders somewhat doubtful ; but, if so 

 it will be pleasing to him to find that he has been useful in his day and gene- 

 ration ; and, at any rate, he may be allowed to indulge in the reflection, that 

 this has been his object." 



Most sincerely do we wish prolonged life and health to this very worthy 

 man. His book contains nothing but what is practical ,• and at the end there 

 is a very interesting memoir of Miller. In this memoir we learn that Miller's 

 father was a Scotchman, who, "after having lived for some time as gardener to 

 a gentleman at Bromley in Kent, commenced business on his own account as 

 a market-gardener, near Deptford." Mr. Watts, one of Miller's men, informed 

 us, some years ago, that Mr. Miller's widow told him that Miller's father was 

 an Englishman; but, from the details into which Mr. Rogers has entered, we 

 have no doubt of his correctness. 



Art. VI. The Journal of the English Agricultural Society. Vol. I. 

 Part I. 8vo, pp. 112. London, 1839. 



The origin of the English Agricultural Society will be found in our pre- 

 ceding volume, p. 181. It now appears to be firmly established, and this first 



